A store and tea room specializing in British imports will open in San Antonio today on the North Side.

A Bit of Britain will open at 13003 Jones Maltsberger Road, where that street intersects with Cross Canyon.

Owner Tracy Pinkerton said the store is an upgraded version of one that formerly was located in Bracken at 18771 FM 2252 called British Sensations. Pinkerton said the new store will have a children's room, which the old location did not have.

Specialty items at the shop include tea, clotted cream, scones and bone china. The store's two tea rooms will serve such items as finger sandwiches, shepherd's pie and sausage mash.

Store hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Tuesday through Saturday. But it will open today at 11 a.m. The tea rooms will open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Tuesday through Saturday.

The new store also will stock merchandise commemorating the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and it will hold events to celebrate the event.